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NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science

NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. T...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 30

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly read...

What Are ORCs? Astronomers Still Don’t Know

What Are ORCs? Astronomers Still Don’t Know

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 26

ORCs—odd radio circles—are one of the weirdest recent discoveries in the heavens...

Scientific American Editor Gary Stix Talks about His 35 Years of Editing the Magazine

Scientific American Editor Gary Stix Talks about His 35...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 25

Hear takeaways from 35 years at Scientific American from Gary Stix, our recently...

What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Found on Exoplanet K2-18 b?

What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Foun...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 32

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have...

Why Astronomers Doubt Claims That Planet K2-18 b Finding Means Alien Life

Why Astronomers Doubt Claims That Planet K2-18 b Findin...

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 24

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosph...

Gutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. Worker

Gutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. Worker

SIN Apr 18, 2025 0 17

I was fired from my job as a scientist at the only federal agency dedicated to t...

Better Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Are Mandated for Europe’s Circular Economy

Better Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and T...

SIN Apr 17, 2025 0 18

New European Union regulations will require products that last longer and are ea...

The Real Reason Autism Rates Are Rising

The Real Reason Autism Rates Are Rising

SIN Apr 17, 2025 0 24

Autism rates are rising, but RFK, Jr. is wrong about the reasons. Here’s what th...

Pedestrian Traffic Turns to Chaos at a Critical Angle, Mathematicians Find

Pedestrian Traffic Turns to Chaos at a Critical Angle, ...

SIN Apr 17, 2025 0 15

In general, crowds like to form lanes to get across—until too many people go in ...

Trump Cuts Should Trigger Loud Protests from Scientific Societies

Trump Cuts Should Trigger Loud Protests from Scientific...

SIN Apr 17, 2025 0 27

Similar to other professions, science has organizations that represent scientist...

North America May Be Dripping Away Deep under the Midwest

North America May Be Dripping Away Deep under the Midwest

SIN Apr 17, 2025 0 33

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest p...

Shift from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy Will Persist despite Trump Policies, New Analyses Say

Shift from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy Will Persis...

SIN Apr 16, 2025 0 13

President Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate policies won’t stop renewables fr...

Alan Turing’s Lost Work Could Reveal How Tigers Got Their Stripes

Alan Turing’s Lost Work Could Reveal How Tigers Got The...

SIN Apr 16, 2025 0 23

The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic...

The Dire Wolf Hoopla Hides the Real Story: How to Save Red Wolves

The Dire Wolf Hoopla Hides the Real Story: How to Save ...

SIN Apr 16, 2025 0 21

Rather than resurrect extinct species, cloning technology could save those at ri...

Why Does Vaccine Hesitancy Occur, and How Can People Combat It?

Why Does Vaccine Hesitancy Occur, and How Can People Co...

SIN Apr 16, 2025 0 26

Spillover from the politicization of the COVID pandemic has eroded vaccine confi...

Our ‘Technofossils’ Will Define Us Forever

Our ‘Technofossils’ Will Define Us Forever

SIN Apr 16, 2025 0 32

Discarded authors Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz, observers of the geological...

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